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Get ready for Al Fresco and outdoor socialising 🌾

Free making projects to prepare for outdoor socialising

Get ready for socialising outdoors this summer with a few simple projects that Yodomo has brought together to bring any outdoor space to life!

Build a wooden planter

Wooden planter

This free course shows you how to make a wooden planter with legs in a contrasting colour. Use as a raised planter for your greenery outdoors or even as a storage box for garden equipment, toys or pillows. This project has been taken with kind permission of CICO Books from Pallet Wood Projects for Outdoor Spaces by Hester van Overbeek.

Make a succulent container garden 

succulents in a concrete planter

Make a wonderful miniature garden with succulents in a variety of colours in a shallow planter, in this easy-to-follow course with clear steps and vivid photographs. A project taken from The Winter Garden by Emma Hardy.

Make a concrete succulent planter

Small succulent in an asymmetrical concrete planter decorated with blue triangles

Through step-by-step instructions and photography, you’ll learn how to make a simple concrete succulent planter using household items for moulds. A project from Making Concrete Pots, Bowls and Platters by Hester van Overbeek.

Knit a summer blanket

Colourful strip blanket on a stool with colourful matching pencils on the ground in front

If you’re a knitter, then chances are you’ll have a little hoard of leftover bits and pieces of yarn or balls that you’ve bought over time and hidden away. Designer Emma Osmond shows you how to the most of that stash of yarn to create a striped blanket in her signature modern pared-down style.

Make a floor cushion

Checkered yellow and grey cushion

In easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions and accompanying photography, learn how to make a patchwork floor cushion with Janet Goddard which you can throw into the garden. Aimed at intermediate crafters, it makes a 30inch square floor cushion.

Making and Caring for Terrariums

A hand touching a cactus inside an open glass terrarium.

Need to get those green fingers flexed and all the kit and plants sent to you? Tune into nature with the relaxing art of terrarium making and make your own miniature garden under glass. These gorgeous terrariums mimic the landscape of beautiful arid desert plains. Get ready for a wonderful display of cacti and succulents! With this new kit from Floral Merchant London you will receive all the materials you need to create your terrarium including access to our step by step video tutorial.

Shop Terrarium Kit + Plants + Step by Step Video Tutorial Price: ÂŁ48.00

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